Features & Reviews
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“Speculative Fiction as a Survival Tool:” A Conversation with C Pam Zhang
Failure is an inevitable part of the process. The faster you get through your failure, the faster you’ll get to the end.
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The Antihero: A Conversation with Kim Foster
I had to change the parameters of what I thought success was. Success might be a plate of eggs with toast or a talk on the curb. Sometimes the most simple thing is the thing that makes the difference. I
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“Good Buy” to All That: Pip Adam’s The New Animals
It’s imaginative fiction in a way that is jolting to the auto-fiction that is so prevalent today, and it allows Adam to make commentary on the disasters of human ambition.
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No Quiet Endings: A Conversation with Elisa Gonzalez
I do think that a stranger’s vantage point can be valuable and create interesting reflections or ideas, but it feels important to doing that in a way that was ethical.
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The Body Made Glorious in Awakening: A Conversation with Diane Gottlieb
These are writers who didn’t want to hide anymore. Instead, they knew how important it was to share their stories.
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Organic Sins: Clemens Meyer’s While We Were Dreaming
Have we made contact with the Leipzig of the late ’80s and early ’90s? Have we made contact with THAT German?
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Facing Redaction by Way of Art: A Conversation with Arthur Kayzakian
We’ve all had that feeling where we’ve felt unseen. I think that’s a big part of this book. Maybe what was taken away from us was attention.
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Permission to Write Her Story: A Conversation with Susan Kiyo Ito
Each adoptee has experiences that make their story unique. It’s important to understand that adoption is not a one-size-fits-all kind of situation.
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Identifying a Mixed Flock: Dimitri Reyes’s Papi Pichón
Such multistoried, woven-together heritage justifies and perhaps even demands the necessity of different ways to tell an origin story.
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Against Aesthetic Beauty: Lauren Elkin’s Art Monsters
. . . Elkin revisits works and experiences new ones, generating dialogues between them and their artists.
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“I Was Watching and You Were Clear”: A Conversation with Carolyn Hays
I think every parent trying to protect their child wants to be the bulletproof vest. At the same time, we also know that we shouldn’t necessarily protect them wholly.
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Yokai and Kishōtenketsu: A Conversation with Jami Nakamura Lin
I feel like when you write a book like this, people just expect you to know so many things. What I wanted to get into the book was this idea of searching.